TheBarber

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    • ON: Mon Jun 23rd 11:27 AM
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      Who Will Monetize Cloud Computing and Why?
      Who will monetize cloud computing? One could reasonably argue that Google and Amazon already have. Many others will, but one company that almost will certainly not, or at best minimally, is Sun Microsystems. Schwartz and his crew of yes men have not monetized Java, and they've had more than 15 years to do so. The people in charge of their virtualization program are pure political animals who cannot execute to save their lives. Rather than worrying about the likes of IBM and HP, their attention, what little there is of it, is consumed by internecine discord.

      The Barber, the man Schwartz fears most
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    • ON: Wed Jun 18th 22:18 PM
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      IBM Wins Supercomputing 'Bakeoff'
      Personally, I'm betting that Pony Tail Boy and his sycophantic crew will succeed in driving this stock back down to its pre-4-to-1-reverse-spl... single-digit trading range. Wouldn't it be nice to have some real courage on the Board? Rather, paralyzed by contumely, they regularly shirk their fiduciary responsibility. McNealy is the worst of them. Schwartz won the Big Prize by being the best suck up of the bunch of them. The edifice is rotten through and through.

      The Barber, the man Schwartz fears most
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    • ON: Wed Jun 11th 20:35 PM
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      Sun Micro Lowest Since Tech Crash
      And if morale at Sun remains high, that's far more a testament to the excellence of the rank-and-file than anything to do with any of their pitiful CXOs or VPs. And it's gotten to the point where people are a little shell-shocked with the once-or twice-a-year layoffs.
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    • ON: Wed Jun 11th 14:02 PM
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      Sun Micro Lowest Since Tech Crash
      I don't know what User 208482 is using, but it must be great shit. Or maybe he or she simply drank Jonathan's koolaid. Pounding the drum of hope for this formerly great company is a kind gesture, but no one has satisfactorily explained how Sun is going to make money with the Open Source strategy and relatively weak product line.

      And Ptickett, so Zander didn't hit a homer with Motorola. Big deal. That doesn't change the history of his time at Sun. The company was making money most of the time, bubble or not. And I think you're wrong about Pets.com. They never made a cent because their cost structure was a mess. It cost more to ship the bag of kitty litter than the bag itself cost.
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    • ON: Wed Jun 11th 00:55 AM
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      Sun Micro Lowest Since Tech Crash
      There's plenty of blame to go around, but one is compelled to observe that at least Sun was making money, and Sun shares were making money for shareholders, during part of the incumbency of Shoemaker and Zander. The current crew of so-called executives, starting with Schwartz and extending throughout his ass-kissing executive team, have never made a dime for the company.

      The Barber, the man Schwartz fears most
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    • ON: Sun Jun 1st 13:46 PM
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      Google, IBM, Red Hat, Sun and the Digistan Connection
      As entertaining as this thread had been (and it has been), what I do not find to be entertaining is that the executive management clowns at JAVA have managed to wipe out about 50% of shareholder equity in just over a year.

      Dear Sun Board of Directors, how long can you continue to support Schwartz and his clique? It's time to clean house yet again.
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    • ON: Sun May 11th 15:44 PM
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      Sun Still Clings to Java Dominance Pitch
      Speaking of Neil Young, did you see that he just had a species of spider named after him? Yup. Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi, to be precise.

      Given that Jonathan Schwartz paid himself $13.5 million last year and just announced 1500 to 2500 hundred more layoffs at Sun, I suppose if someone were to name anything after him, it would have to be a species of leech.
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    • ON: Sun May 11th 15:12 PM
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      Sun Still Clings to Java Dominance Pitch
      It was just great to see Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green cavorting on stage with Neil Young. But what I am wondering is: What are they doing to prevent more layoffs?
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    • ON: Sun May 4th 12:08 PM
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      Can Sun Rise Again?
      There is one little problem with this sunny prediction: The so-called executive management team now comfortably ensconced in the top roles, have never, ever made a dime for the company. They are, to an individual, software guys, and the only people who have ever made money for Sun were systems guys. The latter are all gone, after several years of seeing the current crowd getting promoted well past their levels of competence, culminating in their assumption of the ultimate power positions. The last of the systems guys, David Yen, left a few weeks ago. With him departed the company's last, best chance for executive improvement from within. Time to start looking outside.

      Mark Hurd, up for a real challenge???
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    • ON: Sat May 3rd 19:13 PM
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      Sun Goes Down With Its Legacy Businesses
      Rikky1--

      If I understand this correctly, there is a way to mitigate the problem you delineate for T(n) processors. You employ Logical Domains (LDoms), assign some number of threads to each domain, have a single instance of Solaris running in a domain, and have Solaris do your process scheduling for you. That's a pretty effective way of taming otherwise not-well-threaded applications.

      Shareholders unite! While you still have something left to lose!

      Jonathan must go!
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    • ON: Fri May 2nd 20:23 PM
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      Sun Goes Down With Its Legacy Businesses
      The people responsible for the Open Source strategy--the current so-called executive management team--have never made a penny. Anyone who thought that somehow, miraculously, that would change have been downright intentionally delusional. It's time for accountantability here, and that's the responsibility of the Board of Directors. Short of that, SMI would benefit from an outright shareholders revolt!

      Shareholders unite! You have nothing much left to lose!
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